Oxford University Press
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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy Patricia Ingham
- Oxford university press uk
- 11 Septembre 2003
- 9780191611315
Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The compelling story and the machinations of the evil Aeneas Manston also raise the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, and this edition shows for the first time that the sensation genre was a...
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Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is here presented in a critical text with a new introdu...
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Chance was Conrad's most popular book. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, the abandoned daughter of a bankrupt tycoon, who struggles to achieve dignity and happiness. The revised edition features a new text (the English first edition), revised notes, and a new bibliography and chronology. - ;'n...
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The Lusiads
Luis Vaz De Camoes Landeg White
- Oxford university press uk
- 15 Février 2001
- 9780191604362
First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first Eu...
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The Three Musketeers
Dumas (père) Alexandre
- Oxford university press uk
- 21 Novembre 1991
- 9780191611148
The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XI...
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more...
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Centennial Edition Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of 'dear dirty Dublin' at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people whose 'golden age' has passed. His richly ...
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The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the ...
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede
- Oxford university press uk
- 21 Janvier 1999
- 9780191606014
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of the History in Latin. Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, he recorded the history of the English up ...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe Bonamy Dobrée
- Oxford university press uk
- 18 Juin 1998
- 9780191605116
`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass Deborah E McDowell
- Oxford university press uk
- 7 Octobre 1999
- 9780191605253
Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualizing source material and other writings by...
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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. Thi...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art...
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A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic coll...
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Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter on a drunken impulse at a local fair. Eighteeen years later his temperament again thwarts his attempts to make amends. Henchard is a modern-day tragic hero, but his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically establis...
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The Swiss Family Robinson is an adventure story with a decidedly domestic centre, in which smugness and safety thoroughly outbalance the element of danger. Inspired by Rousseau's theories of education, the story of the shipwrecked Swiss pastor and his family is liberally seasoned with suspense, adve...
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Intelligent Drug Development: Trials and Errors in Clinical Research
Michael Tansey
- Oxford university press
- 15 Avril 2014
- 9780190200657
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Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions
Allan Barsky
- Oxford university press
- 7 Mai 2014
- 9780190209315
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
Huntington Clare
- Oxford university press usa
- 3 Mai 2014
- 9780199366958
Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation policy to the...
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The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations
David Day
- Oxford university press usa
- 22 Avril 2014
- 9780190213800
As the leadership field continues to evolve, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the various theoretical and empirical contributions in better understanding leadership from a scholarly and scientific perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations brings together a collect...
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Fixing U.S. International Taxation
Shaviro Daniel N
- Oxford university press usa
- 8 Janvier 2014
- 9780199359769
International tax rules, which determine how countries tax cross-border investment, are increasingly important with the rise of globalization, but the modern U.S. rules, even more than those in most other countries, are widely recognized as dysfunctional. The existing debate over how to reform the U...
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Navigating Environmental Attitudes
Thomas A Heberlein
- Oxford university press
- 27 Août 2012
- 9780190224783
The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventio...
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A Cycle of Outrage: Americas Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in th
James Gilbert
- Oxford university press
- 13 Octobre 1988
- 9780195363562
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No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Cu
Matthew D Tribbe
- Oxford university press
- 6 Juin 2014
- 9780199313532
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